wake

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v

1. awaken, awake, waken, get up; rouse, arouse, stir, budge; come to, come around, become conscious, sit up, come alive.

2. animate, stimulate, activate, get [s.o.] going; arouse, enliven, vivify; whet, kindle, fire, ignite, stir up, work up; excite, inspirit, quicken; spur, prod, incite, goad; resuscitate, reanimate, revivify, bring to life; key up, whip into a lather, whip up, move.

n

3. watch, vigil, deathwatch, Obs. pervigila-tion, Eccles. pernoctation.

II

n

1. track, path, train, trail; wash, backwash, course, line; spoor, scent, trace.

2. in the wake of

a. as a result of, because of, due to, owing to; by virtue of, in view of, on account of.b. succeeding, following, after, ensuing, subsequent, consequent.